#Man... What is like to be INSANE about a fictional character...

[moonraker-sail]

black sails season 2 episode 5 notes: (you know. the episode!!)

wtf silver why would you tell billy that flint killed gates...what happened to the his heart gave out lie

silver is a manipulative little thing isn't he (i say this w admiration)

ok theres no way lord hamilton and flint didn't fuck come onnnn

flashback flint i like your little hair ribbon

really excited btw...i heard this was the gay tm episode

i love that anne bonny is very self reflective/introspective...perhaps too much so

flint coming back in his lieutenant uniform but he has a beard!!!

ok is this like a threesome situation or a cuck chair or what between miranda thomas and james

(sidenote i remember when jack pulled up his own cuck chair in front of max and bonny lmfao)

also omgggg flint i cant believe ur actually firing on the fort that's insane

goddd i know this isnt going to happen but can vane and flint just fuck it out between them. u two are so damn annoying

(also i'm so sad that eleanor's man at arms w the cute accent got killed by ned low)

insane to say but something really sexy about flint jumping out of the longboat onto the beach

honestly so admirable that flint is so militant about nassau and his dream

uh oh wtfffff did flint do oh my goddd "it is too profane it is too loathesome to explain" ok he definitely fucked thomas hamilton oh my goddddd

THEY COMMITTED THOMAS????? GODDDD

peter ashe's support....

anne bonny looming behind jack...

jack describing max as "a font of prostitutional intelligence" lol

uh oh sexism coming in w the steel chair to foil jack's plan for a crew and also anne bonny's relationship

"it's only temporary until i gain their trust" uh oh anne bonny don't listen to himmm!!!

billy you don't deserve this you deserve a good wash and clean clothes and a nice meal and instead you get one (1) annoying silver yapping in your ear

also silver and randall's relationship is so precious to me

"i don't believe in him" ok season 2 silver we will get back to that in another season or two

flint and vane bite each others dicks off right now

oh my god silver is letting billy go...symbolic gesture of trust

eleanor don't listen to your father he's lying to you!!!!!!! he's your father!!!

ok this whole family domestic issues angst is boring. can we get a move on

THEY FUCKEDDDDDDDD YAHOO YIPPEE OH MY GODDDD AUGUHHHHH i literally had to pause the screen to take it in!!!

fuck that's so tender aughhhhhhh oh my godd (also not miranda in the cuck chair aksjjskskssk)

damn. this is so tragic.....i need to tell myself they r fictional characters so bad

VANE COMING IN WITH THE STEEL CHAIR right when james was tearing up too oh my goddddd

[faerghusfucker]

Hey how are you doing?

If you still feel like doing this ask meme and have the time and energy for it then I'd like to ask 1, 2, 3, 7, 8 and 23 for Sylvain.

hellooooo i’m currently at a family thing that SUCKS and so im clearing my askbox of the stuff i missed while i was rotting in academia!!!! whether i post this on the night i wrote it or not is entirely up to my whims.

im always down for ask memes and im ESPECIALLY DOWN for sylvain. pretend that im responding to this on the day you sent it to me and its still his birthday.

1. Why do you like or dislike this character?

so this may come as news to you guys. you may not know this about me. but I LOVE SYLVAIN!!!!! i always end up being charmed by the characters who come off the nastiest and i DONT KNOW WHY. i meet a fuckass man like sylvain and im just like i HAVE to know what’s going on here. this results in catastrophe in my personal life but makes my consumption of fiction really fun. i was enamored with him when i knew him as the silly loser flirt, and i was even MORE enamored when i got to know him better and found out that we actually have an unfortunate amount in common and that his behavior is a rlly funky trauma response. he also reminds me a lot of josuke from jjba but like. a worse version. so i like him a lot.

2. Favorite canon thing about this character?

i love that he’s a secret nerd!!!! i think his support chain with bernadetta was one of the first things that really endeared me to him. he’s so genuinely sweet about her book and i love that he’s so determined to find a way to tell her how much he loves it without scaring her (even though he DOES end up scaring her in the end bc she’s bernie.)

not only is he a secret artsy guy, but he’s also insanely smart in ways that people do not give him credit for. in his supports with dedue he just casually predicts THE ENTIRE TRUTH TO THE TRAGEDY OF DUSCUR!!!! and just laughs it off!!! like, yeah, anyone with brain cells could figure that out probably, but being in the shitass cultural climate he’s in and still being able to think objectively about the situation and not, i dunno, blame an entire people for things that they didn’t do (ahem) is kind of awesome to me. there’s also the whole ENDING CRESTS WITH ORATION ALONE THING!!!! i feel like that’s dramatically understated. SYLVAIN. ENDED. CRESTS. WITH. ORATION. ALONE. no war no conquest no dead. either he’s just that good of a politician or edelgard was just an especially shitty one 😭😭😭 it could go either way i feel.

3. Least favorite canon thing about this character?

idk man the whole “using women as objects of entertainment” thing is rlly ew yucky nasty. i am not blind to the sins of my faves, the misogyny that he displays throughout the story through his objectification, generalization, and general heinous behavior towards women is just not okay and it’s the reason why a lot of people don’t appreciate all the good he has to offer in terms of analysis of faerghus’ culture, his arc, etc. and that’s okay!!!! i’m not gonna defend a misogynist on the internet lmao that’s. just not the business i want to be involved in. i find sylvain to be compelling to think about and one of my favorite characters to write about, but so many of his C supports just have me grimacing at the screen. get your shit together you dumbass ginger!!!!!

7. What’s something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you like?

i love it when we peel back all the layers to this disgusting onion boy and get to the REAL MEAT of his motivations and his identity!!!! i’ve read so much good fic recently and a lot of good analysis where the most intelligent and eloquent people in the universe are just getting straight to the meat of this stupid man and exposing his raw beating heart to the open air. dissecting sylvain is so fun and there’s just so much in there.

8. What’s something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you despise?

moralizing personal taste. this by no means is a sylvain exclusive issue, but i’ve seen people say that to enjoy sylvain as a character is to be okay with his shitty behavior which is. not the case at all lol. i tend to not care too much about character criticism on here (i actually usually AGREE with most of it) but what grinds my gears is when people try to make statements about how people should feel about characters, or trying to assign a moral value to a certain opinion on him. whether you like or dislike a character is up to NOTHING except your personal taste. this especially applies to my boy sylvain. okay didn’t mean to get on my soapbox lmao, i have a lot to say on this apparently.

23. Favorite picture of this character?

i have a few lol. sorry in advance

first we have this expedition screenshot that i took while i was forcing my irls to watch me play three hopes. they laughed at me and asked me why i like this guy so much bc he looks at me like a predator. and they were right!!!! look at his stupid face and hair. i hate this little shit /pos

next we have these two pics from my fe3h tomodachi life game. i’m giving him gender dysphoria on purpose. tomodachi life is the best bc i just have a tiny sylvain in a torture box to feed and clothe with things he hates.

mwah mwah mwah thanks for the ask and thanks for your patience. i’m always down for this ask game.

[girzapata6]

So... My birthday is this April 15----- 😁😁😁(???????

I want.... Torbek plushie.... So bad.... 💔💔💔

[rainyraisin]

I think Gerald Robotnik is the perfect example of how sympathetic doesn't mean forgivable and I havent seen a single person talk about it

[hiyyihrts]

I’ve only recently got into the bridgerton fandom side of things but making an entire blog about how much you hate one ship/character is actually kinda crazy and obsessive 😭 if you don’t care about them or don’t even like the show bc of them why keep entertaining it and talking about it… maybe unclench and log off for a bit idk

[dyketennant]

oh i can already tell i’m about to have some really unpopular opinions about the edge of sleep tv show

[solisitude]

seeing a tiktok about how the person who made the video blocks every marauders cosplayer because they get second hand embarrassment from the cosplays : oh! myabe its just because the marauders tiktok community is really shit?

me opening the comments :

me : oh

[gothteddiesdotcom]

I think that part of what like. kills me about the whole media literacy and critical thinking aspect of enjoying media these days is that people refuse to like. contextualize that

A. Bad media can still hold significant meaning to people

B. Media made for a demographic you aren’t apart of is not inherently bad media

C. Media made for and consumed by the opposite demographic is not inherently shallow or flawed nor is it above criticism for its media tropes either.

[non-un-topo]

Sometimes I think about tua Dave Katz and how he was this sweet sensitive boy turned GI because of his uncle's 1960s toxic masculinity and homophobia + military vet culture, and how while he did multiple tours in Vietnam (implication when we first meet him), his favourite book was an anti-imperialist nerdy sci-fi, and also how he died without ever having escaped all of that shit, and how the writers just... forgot about him.

[fawninthewinter]

Watching Marzgurl’s Vic Mignogna story vid with reports of him seductively whispering into other women and girls’ ears and hearing I wasn’t the only one who had their ear creepily whispered into by him (as Edward Elric for me) after an experience where I met him at FanExpo 2014 when I was 16 and female presenting at the time makes me physically ill and wanting to scream at my teenage self to get away from that autograph booth so much. Literally no other VA had done that before and being a high schooler I thought I was in heaven then. Ten years later I am glad to have recognized how not normal that was.

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[gansey-like]

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[etherealspacejelly]

Jelly, buddy as someone who knows next to nothing about Star Trek, please tell me what’s happening

ok so spock/kirk is like. the oldest ship ever, okay? they invented slash fiction. these guys pioneered fandom as we know it today

in the last movies they made with those original characters, they were separated into like. alternate universes. okay. these guys were never gonna see each other again and it was very sad and tragic and the fans were kinda sad about it but it is what it is.

then. they made a short film. right. like 8 minutes long. of kirk reuniting with spock. on spocks deathbed. and kirk holds his hand, and they look off into the sunset together.

they got to be reunited. they got to be together in the end. they got their romantic ending i swear to god im losing it.

if it helps. imagine if in 50 years time, they released an 8 minute video of old man dean winchester going to the empty and saving castiel and then they sat on the hood of the impala holding hands and watching the sun set. thats what its like. you see how insane that is??? do you get it???

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

I think this blog is helping me learn how to be less parasocial because before now I’ve only ever heard it used when referring to crazy insane fans who think their favorite blogger/youtuber/streamer/whatever is in love with them but this is making me realize that that isn’t the case. parasocialness can happen even with seemingly small things. all in all be mean to your anons it helps them and I’m sorry if this is parasocial in and of itself

idk what you’re blogging about rn but I hope you get that man pregnant or whatever 👍

the thing about parasociality is that it's undergone a rather bizarre transformation wherein the connotation is almost always a negative one, when the actual definition is merely describing a very human ability to feel connected to and concerned with people who we've never met and even "people" who might not really exist - the term was coined in the 50s to describe the attachment and investment that people felt in fictional television characters.

there's nothing innately negative OR positive about a parasocial relationship. to your example, a relationship doesn't become parasocial when you convince yourself that your favorite media personality is in love with you, but rather when you develop a sense of fondness for them in the first place.

I have no illusions about now attached my favorite youtube yoga instructor feels to me, personally (she doesn't, at all, because we've never directly interacted) but I feel warmly about her all the same, frequently feel cheered after following along with her yoga routines, and will be sad when the dog who appears in many of her videos inevitably dies. that's a parasocial relationship and it's fine! it's not bad to care about people you don't know personally, and that is arguably an important thing to be able to do.

you feeling warmly about my tumblr persona and appreciating what I do here is also parasocial, and that's okay! like I said, that's neither good nor bad! the parasociality can be harmful, but it's all nuance baybeeee!

[exopelagic]

outgrowing characters is the weirdest thing

[titlishu]

my only wish in life is to be a fictional character

[harmonicaorange]

watching bellamy blake edits on tiktok but they are NOTHING compared to 2016 vine edits